IT IS SICKENING – AT 10:12 A.M. ET:  Now the degenerate left is going after General John Kelly, the president's chief of staff, a combat veteran whose own son was killed in the war on terror.  Apparently, nothing is sacred on the left.  From Fox: 

For a stunning and emotional 18 minutes on Thursday, White House Chief of Staff John Kelly cut through a nasty debate over condolence calls to Gold Star families, appealing to the political class to allow at least this one thing to remain “sacred.”

Instead, Democratic lawmakers and operatives and allies in the media immediately turned on Kelly – himself a Gold Star father – branding him a liar and an “enabler” of President Trump, even suggesting his criticism of a black Democrat who publicized one of those calls was racist.

“Kelly isn't just an enabler of Trump. He's a believer in him. That makes him as odious as the rest. Don't be distracted by the uniform,” Hillary Clinton’s former spokesman and CNN contributor Brian Fallon tweeted.

“I am stunned by John Kelley's lies about a black woman who he called an 'empty barrel,'” MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell tweeted.

During his appearance in the White House briefing room on Thursday, Kelly tried to reset – and resolve – the unseemly weeklong political war over presidential calls to families of dead American soldiers.

President Trump effectively started that debate after questioning earlier this week whether former President Barack Obama made those phone calls. But Rep. Frederica Wilson, D-Fla., escalated the fight when she criticized Trump’s call to the widow of a soldier killed earlier this month in Niger.

COMMENT:  On the Democratic Party left, it is always "race, gender and ethnicity."  General Kelly has conducted himself with a grace and dignity seen rarely in the Washington swamp.  For his trouble he is called a liar and a racist. 

The Democratic Party used to be the party of Roosevelt, Truman and Kennedy.  It used to be the national defense party at a time when the Republicans were still wedded to head-in-the-sand isolationism.

Look at the Democratic Party today.

October 20,  2017